An irreverent and informative tour of the latest, greatest and most interesting discoveries in astronomy.
Walkabout the Galaxy got its start from our coffee break "walkabouts" at the University of Central Florida. Josh is not a coffee drinker, so instead of a “coffee break” he takes a walkabout the UCF campus with his colleagues. The wide-ranging conversation on these breaks, from the latest astronomy news to the latest developments in science fiction were so much fun that Walkabout the Galaxy was born. This conversational podcast covers the latest news in astronomy and physics at a level accessible to anyone who is interested in space or just wants to join in a fun and occasionally silly conversation.
WtG is hosted by Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, and Jim Cooney. All three are in the Physics Department and the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida. Josh and Addie study dust, rings, comets, moon, asteroids, and planet formation, and they try to drag Jim into their planetary escapades, but his passion is cosmology.
You can reach out to the WtG team at wtg@ucf.edu
Podcast from 2021
The Surprising Science of Space Dirt, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Perseverance, Cache Me While You Can!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Dark and Distant Rumbles of Spacetime, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Ancient Planets and Bumblebee Gravity, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Meet Pillownaut Heather Archuleta, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Podcast from 2020
It's Not that Dark After All, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Taking the Measure of the Milky Way, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Something Old, Something Blue, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Birth of a Magnetar, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
We Saw a Magnetar Burp!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
OMG The Moon!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Asteroid Bennu Gets TAGged!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Airing of Grievances!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Jerk, Snap, Crackle, Pop, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
It's a Small Waterworld, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
A Deep Dive into Venus's Atmosphere, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Mary Robinette Kowal, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Big Black Holes and Tiny Water Worlds, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Pressures Great and Small, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Ceres is a Planet with Water!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The One With All The Fields, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Strange Neutrinos and the Bucket Brigade, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
One Mystery Solved Another Mystery Deepens, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Great Wall of Galaxies, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Things That Go Bump in the Dark, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The 200th One, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Of Magnetars and Mars, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Planet Formation Caught in the Act, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Universe May Be Empty But We Are Together, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
A Backyard Black Hole, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Is The Sun a Sunlike Star, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Quark with a Fork, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
When You Wish Upon a Neutrino, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Psyche Out: Metal Asteroids and an Irregular Universe, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Alien Life and Star Trek Diseases, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Importance of Being Gassy, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
A Pulsating Star and a Salty Asteroid, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
It's That Time of the Solar Cycle, Joshua Colwell and Adrienne Dove
Gravitational Waves Rumbling Through the Universe, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
All The Galaxy's a Stage And We Are Merely Astroquarks, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Things That Go Burst in the Night, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Sexaquark, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Mysterious Case of the Dragging Frame, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Asteroid versus the Volcanoes, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Lucy, TESS, and the Dark Energy Mess, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Hashtag Fundamental, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Podcast from 2019
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Hot Blobs and Magnetic Spots, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Jim the Asteroid Licker, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Would You Like Your Chunky Space with a Swirl?, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Antimatter and Wormholes, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
When a Giant Black Hole Blows a Lot of Gas, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Astroquark Soup, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Vibration Dance and the Mole Shimmy, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Bananas About Brown Dwarfs, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Lost in Space: Rogue Planets and the Intergalactic Web, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
I've Got My Eyeball Planet on You, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The One From Geneva, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Moon Water and Galaxy Bubbles, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Podcast of Dorian Hurricane, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Starforker, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Will the Sun Burp When it Eats the Earth?, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
When Light Climbs Out of a Hole, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Where Silence Has Lease, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Black Hole Middle Class, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Dragonfly Me to the Moon of Saturn, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Left and Right in the Universe, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Universe is Running Hot and Cold, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Forbidden Planets, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
All About Bob, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Moon Quakes and Venus Shakes, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Impacts Large and Small and Very Large, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Is Mars Farting or Burping?, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
I Can See Your Black Hole From Here, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
There are Dark Forces at Work in the Universe, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Bennu is Puking Asteroid Pebbles, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Too Early to the Party: Trek, The Orville, and Aliens, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The One with Joe Haldeman, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Are You Positive That's North?, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
To Seek Out and Explore, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Galaxy, Right Ahead!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Year of the Astroquark, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Podcast from 2018
2018 Year in Review with Top Quark Trivia, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Jim Goes Off on Fahrenheit, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Dark Matter Hurricane, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
It's All About U, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Alien Sex, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Fireballs and Penitentes, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Where No Podcast Except This One Has Gone Before, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Of Goblins and Planets, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Big Falcon Episode, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
An Exthwartation of Quarks, or Jupiter's Magnetic Nubbin, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The One That Should Have Been Sponsored by Starburst, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
When the Moon Hits Your Eye, You Might Get a Little Wet, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Really Real Actual Water IN Mars. Probably., Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
The Little Neutrino That Could, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
What Goes Around Comes Around, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Wouldn't You Like to Hayabusa Too?, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
USA to NASA: Save Our Planet!, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
Won't You Be My Neighbor Universe?, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, and James Cooney
